Read together, these very different books ask a question: do we have to choose between hope for the future and accepting life in all its bizarre banality?
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The Thornbacks features ‘weird sisters’ whose reaction to being unloved is to make themselves unlovable to almost everyone – except each other.
Online platforms like Reddit and Wattpad let writers test their skills for an audience – and provide a testing ground for Hollywood, too, through likes and upvotes.
Advances in AI platforms have been oddly benchmarked through their engagements with the short story form. What does the latest literary AI scandal tell us?
The stories in The Eleventh Hour tell Rushdie’s life story in metaphorical glimpses.
Eight posthumously discovered stories by the author of To Kill a Mockingbird are closer to a famous writer’s juvenilia than literary buried treasure.
These three whimsical short stories tell the story of Woolf’s dear friend Violet Dickinson.
Students in this literature course read a range of novels, short stories and more on grave robbing, murder, terror and grief.
She experiments with form while capturing the hopes and contradictions of our times.
Netflix meets TikTok in the fast-paced world of vertical dramas. This billion-dollar industry is blowing up – while riding on worker exploitation.
The inventive fictions of Michael Farrell, Lucy Nelson and Alex Cothren display flashes of brilliance and humour.
Researchers found that when Black Christians mentioned their faith at work, they feared they would be discriminated against because of both their race and their religion.
Despite the absurd or humorous surface nature of the stories, there is a profundity to the collection that lies just below the surface.
The magazine, founder Harold Ross famously declared, would not be ‘edited for the old lady in Dubuque.’ A century later, it stands as a testament to his bold, uncompromising vision.
Borges imagined an endless library that contained every possible permutation of letters. The truth is out there, but it’s embedded among hordes of lies and gibberish.
The complex, haunting stories in Highway 13 are centred around a series of murders. There are echoes throughout of the ‘backpacker murders’ committed by Ivan Milat.
Jackson was overlooked for decades by a predominantly male literary establishment who didn’t know how to categorise her deeply unsettling and uncomfortable writing.
Anne Carson’s playful new book, Wrong Norma, meaningfully makes apparently random connections – and the result is compelling.
Munro observed the ways time and perspective may alter understanding. Revisiting ‘Alice Munro Country’ in southwestern Ontario in Canada is one way to honour her.
The intriguing stories in Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Astronauts bring obscure historical footnotes to life.
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